I tried the patch in this email and got a LOT of failed hunks, I copied and pasted into a file, and also tried save as in mozilla. I just looked at the source on that page and it looks like they added their own br's and other crap to the patch, which basically makes it unuseable. *sigh*
I personally never saw the point in sound servers, I have a ymfpci sound card and running the alsa drivers, I don't run a sound server, and mutliple applications can be accessing/dev/dsp at once, playing an mp3, still hear icq sounds, record. I've never runn esd, arts, or whatever....
It's weird though, I can do all that, but if I load a page that uses flash, and I'm recording at the time, I get a kernel oops and my sound driver dies (until I reboot) damn annoying.
but crippled their own work by bowing to release deadlines
EA is notorious for forcing game companies to release on schedule, even though the game isn't quite done or polished enough. Just ask id Software and about any other game company that has agree to a release date with EA. Take BattleField 1942 as another example for instance, that game still has huge sound issues, but it was still released as is. Although in Dice's defense, I have a feeling the sound issue problem is something with directx/directsound, as Medieval: Total Warfare has similar problems.
While I hate it when a game is released early, I can see where EA is comming from. EA didn't get to where there are today by being dumb, timing the release of a game can make or break it.
Your analogy is quite flawed tho. You can't just call the police to arrest the spammer because spamming isn't illegal in a lot of places, whilst selling crack is.
This compares maybe something more to the tune of people going around door to door, asking for money. It's not illegal, but it can be annoying, but it's not that bad as I only see maybe 1 person a month. But if you apply this to spam, the cost for "going to door to door" is really cheap, so you can get hundreds of "visits" a day. So how do you stop them? You can't arrest them, it's not illegal (in most states). If you can think of a better way to convince "spam friendly" ISP to not allow spammers, I'm all ears.
This kind of blocking has been done in the past (but with warnings first), and has been met with similar outlash. usenet udp. I'm up in the air about the issue. I hate spam friendly ISP's with a passsion, but on the other hand, if there was only one high-speed ISP in town and they were spam friendly, then I'd be screwed.
SOMETHING needs to be done, no doubt about it. Spam Assassin works to an extent, but it's more of a hack, and doesn't actually directly address the problem at it's source, where it needs to be addressed.
Although getting a cutsy little mousepad in _addition_ to other presents might not be a bad idea, especially if it's personalized or something with a photo on it. Many places do this, including webphotos. I'm sure many other places do, that's the only I know of offhand tho.
Know your girl though, some might not like it tho as you stated.:)
But are there really people who buy Madden 2000, Madden 2001, Madden 2002 and so forth all for the same system?
Yup, I happen to be friends with one of these people. He has a ps2 and probably buys 50% of the sports games out there, including all the "upgrade" games. Hey, he's a sports nut with money. And those games are what do it for him, although personally, I find all the sports games kinda boring at times, he realizes that and doesn't care what I think. He looks at my PC games in very much the same way that I look at his ps2 sports games.
Hell ya, I totally agree with everything that articles says. I was looking for a controller for my dreamcast a couple years back and wasn't happy with anything on the market at the time. The NES Advantage was a joystick that acted like joystick when you need it to, but didn't have the DISadvantage that some joysticks have over gamepads with certain games.
THE most durable, intuitive, and easiest to use joystick use ever. The weight and size was perfect for almost all hands of all sizes.
I never really got the whole 5.1 thing for my computer. I have a $50 pair of Cambridge Soundworks speakers with sub here, well they're 70 now, but they were 50 when I bought em 2 years ago on sale. Anyways, the speakers sound fatastic, they get fairly loud, with decent bass (although there's a few songs they HATE at high volume levels:), and that's enough for my computer.
I have the thousand some dollar 5.1 system downstairs hooked up to the tv and dvd player.:) Also a Cambridge Soundworks system, with a nice Harmon Kardon amp. For anyone looking at getting some CSW equipment, check out ebay, that's where they sells all their refurbs, and also where I bought most of my speakers, and they come with the same full warranties and satifaction money back guarnatees all their new stuff does.
Spending gobs of money for some chincy PC speakers with a bogus power rating to play whatever PC game in 5.1 just seems dumb to me.
I'd love to see both arts and esd die a horrible death.
Fact is that I've never run a sound server for more than a few minutes, it's the first thing I disable. I never really got the point, if you have a half ass sound card and decent drivers, then multiple apps should be able to use the sound card and once and it should do hardware mixing, screw that software mixing stuff.
The most comprehensive strong bad site ever is here, and has probably almost every easter egg, and even decoded the wingdings font IM message and everything.:)
Sure you monitor can't handle a higher framerate or brain can't detect it yet. But these are the games of today being run against the video cards of tommorrow. Sure it may get 400fps in q3, but may only get 60fps in doom3 due to all the friggin poly. If this is the case, then I'm really going to be wanting the faster GPU over the bigger pipeline. It's impossible to tell without proper benchmarks, which will have to wait, as the GF FX isn't retail yet, nor is doom3 (or any other really hardware demanding game).
I spose you could try a bf1942 benchmark or something, as that's one of those most brutal (on the hardware) games I have.
I don't know about you, but I don't know a single gamer that runs games with AA on, myself included. Almost always you can get a better effect just by cranking the resolution up a notch or two, and getter an equal frame rate.
As a semi serious gamer, I don't think I've ever even had AA on for more than a couple minutes.
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Well the online docs seem to be written for someone with a programming background. If you have no idea how a if, for, while, switch, etc control structures work, you might have a hard time. I've learned php from the web docs, and a few random examples and now I'm a wiz. It also helps when programming php to know how the web works since writing a php program is nothing how you'd write a c program. Once you get in this mode of thinking it all becomes very easy.
I never, ever wanted anything more than the existing web docs, but I came from a solid c/c++ background, and I already had been using html for 3 years.
Maybe it would help if there was a web primer to bring people up to speed where the function listing help would be of more using and make much more sense.
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Zend sells it's own accelerator, so it's in their intest NOT to include caching in php, or else zend's sales would drop.
I just preordered two dvds recently from amazon, and they actually shipped before the release date, with a big sticker on it saying "NOTE TO POSTMASTER, DO NOT DELIVER BEFORE NOVEMBER 14, 2002" or something to that extent. And guess what, I got both dvd on the day noted on the package.
Maybe they've fixed their preorder issues since your troubles. Personally I really don't care if I don't get my DVD the day of, I could get it a week later and not really care. I just used amazon because it's easy, and I don't have to make a 20 minute haul to Best Buy to stand in line.
I use a mirror hard drive to backup my data, which I do on a weekly basis. If either drive goes bad, then hopefully I'll know about it. If the data is more was important like as in your case, then I'd either make my backup machine either redundant raid, or have two seperate machines that do the backing up. The idea is that both dataset won't go bad at the same time.:) And since both are in kind of active use, I'll know when pretty soon one goes bad.
I used to have all my data on a single unbackuped up 80 gig hd. A while back on slashdot there was an article on incremental backups via rsync. So I looked at it's feasiblity for a bit and I ended up buying two 120 gig hds, one drive resides in my linux workstation/server that I'm using now, it holds the live, in use copy of my data. And the other drive is in a dual boot xp/linux machine that sits right next to it. It's usually in xp when I want to play games, but once I week I fire the machine up to backup my data.
All in all I'm backing up around 90 gig to a 120 gig drive, plus I keep one previous copy of the data on the drive. I also use the same machine and hd to back up a server I have in maryland. I keep 3 incremental copies of this data since it's smaller. I'm counting on most of the files not to change, or else I wouldn't be able to store all of this on a single drive.
While you won't be able to back up 220 gigs of data with a single hard drive, you could easily have a mirror machine with software raid in linux that runs rsync on data.
You also wouldn't want to have the machine sittings right next to each other obviously.:) For my purposes, having both machines next to each other is pefectly acceptable risk, besides, it's MY data. If the room catches on fire, the data is toast, along with the rest of my belongings. If there's a huge electrical surge, I'm not sure what's gonna happen, both machines are plugged into a UPS. I'll just pray to God in this case.
Anyway, here's the scripts that I ended up using, I used scripts from the previously mentioned slashdot article as a guidline.
pimpbot.sh is the actual script that invokes rsync, then we have the exclude file, plus there's backup.sh which get executed nightly on the server that's being backuped up, it backups up the database, and other random files that's more machine specific.
Yeah, I went for the celeron because the p3's were easily twice as expensive or more at the time, and I was pretty sure that the celeron was going to be able to handle the job, which it did, and still does.:) I'd still make the same choice by going with a celeron and saving myself 90 bucks.
Heck I just realized the slowest computer I still use is a p3-850, and that's a play server I have set up at the office in Maryland.:)
Slashdot Mirror
I believe these are due for the 4.1 series. There's a little note about it here
You can see the message here or download the patch linked from this email here
Personally I think I'm going to wait for a proper version of the kernel to come out, (and hope it does).
I tried the patch in this email and got a LOT of failed hunks, I copied and pasted into a file, and also tried save as in mozilla. I just looked at the source on that page and it looks like they added their own br's and other crap to the patch, which basically makes it unuseable. *sigh*
There's always the documentation
I personally never saw the point in sound servers, I have a ymfpci sound card and running the alsa drivers, I don't run a sound server, and mutliple applications can be accessing /dev/dsp at once, playing an mp3, still hear icq sounds, record. I've never runn esd, arts, or whatever....
It's weird though, I can do all that, but if I load a page that uses flash, and I'm recording at the time, I get a kernel oops and my sound driver dies (until I reboot) damn annoying.
but crippled their own work by bowing to release deadlines
EA is notorious for forcing game companies to release on schedule, even though the game isn't quite done or polished enough. Just ask id Software and about any other game company that has agree to a release date with EA. Take BattleField 1942 as another example for instance, that game still has huge sound issues, but it was still released as is. Although in Dice's defense, I have a feeling the sound issue problem is something with directx/directsound, as Medieval: Total Warfare has similar problems.
While I hate it when a game is released early, I can see where EA is comming from. EA didn't get to where there are today by being dumb, timing the release of a game can make or break it.
Looks like someone put up a bittorrent on that site here
download bittorent here
It's a good idea, but I can't even connect to the site, and freeloader.com has disabled subscriptions until SPRING!?
Your analogy is quite flawed tho. You can't just call the police to arrest the spammer because spamming isn't illegal in a lot of places, whilst selling crack is.
This compares maybe something more to the tune of people going around door to door, asking for money. It's not illegal, but it can be annoying, but it's not that bad as I only see maybe 1 person a month. But if you apply this to spam, the cost for "going to door to door" is really cheap, so you can get hundreds of "visits" a day. So how do you stop them? You can't arrest them, it's not illegal (in most states). If you can think of a better way to convince "spam friendly" ISP to not allow spammers, I'm all ears.
This kind of blocking has been done in the past (but with warnings first), and has been met with similar outlash. usenet udp. I'm up in the air about the issue. I hate spam friendly ISP's with a passsion, but on the other hand, if there was only one high-speed ISP in town and they were spam friendly, then I'd be screwed.
SOMETHING needs to be done, no doubt about it. Spam Assassin works to an extent, but it's more of a hack, and doesn't actually directly address the problem at it's source, where it needs to be addressed.
ROFL, Ghostbusters rules.
:)
Although getting a cutsy little mousepad in _addition_ to other presents might not be a bad idea, especially if it's personalized or something with a photo on it.
Many places do this, including webphotos. I'm sure many other places do, that's the only I know of offhand tho.
Know your girl though, some might not like it tho as you stated.
But are there really people who buy Madden 2000, Madden 2001, Madden 2002 and so forth all for the same system?
Yup, I happen to be friends with one of these people. He has a ps2 and probably buys 50% of the sports games out there, including all the "upgrade" games. Hey, he's a sports nut with money. And those games are what do it for him, although personally, I find all the sports games kinda boring at times, he realizes that and doesn't care what I think. He looks at my PC games in very much the same way that I look at his ps2 sports games.
Hell ya, I totally agree with everything that articles says. I was looking for a controller for my dreamcast a couple years back and wasn't happy with anything on the market at the time. The NES Advantage was a joystick that acted like joystick when you need it to, but didn't have the DISadvantage that some joysticks have over gamepads with certain games.
THE most durable, intuitive, and easiest to use joystick use ever. The weight and size was perfect for almost all hands of all sizes.
Forget the max, I want a joystick, not a pad.
Show up naked, bring beer.
That will melt 90% of guys I know, myself included.
I never really got the whole 5.1 thing for my computer. I have a $50 pair of Cambridge Soundworks speakers with sub here, well they're 70 now, but they were 50 when I bought em 2 years ago on sale. Anyways, the speakers sound fatastic, they get fairly loud, with decent bass (although there's a few songs they HATE at high volume levels :), and that's enough for my computer.
:) Also a Cambridge Soundworks system, with a nice Harmon Kardon amp. For anyone looking at getting some CSW equipment, check out ebay, that's where they sells all their refurbs, and also where I bought most of my speakers, and they come with the same full warranties and satifaction money back guarnatees all their new stuff does.
I have the thousand some dollar 5.1 system downstairs hooked up to the tv and dvd player.
Spending gobs of money for some chincy PC speakers with a bogus power rating to play whatever PC game in 5.1 just seems dumb to me.
I'd love to see both arts and esd die a horrible death.
Fact is that I've never run a sound server for more than a few minutes, it's the first thing I disable. I never really got the point, if you have a half ass sound card and decent drivers, then multiple apps should be able to use the sound card and once and it should do hardware mixing, screw that software mixing stuff.
The most comprehensive strong bad site ever is here, and has probably almost every easter egg, and even decoded the wingdings font IM message and everything. :)
Sure you monitor can't handle a higher framerate or brain can't detect it yet. But these are the games of today being run against the video cards of tommorrow.
Sure it may get 400fps in q3, but may only get 60fps in doom3 due to all the friggin poly. If this is the case, then I'm really going to be wanting the faster GPU over the bigger pipeline. It's impossible to tell without proper benchmarks, which will have to wait, as the GF FX isn't retail yet, nor is doom3 (or any other really hardware demanding game).
I spose you could try a bf1942 benchmark or something, as that's one of those most brutal (on the hardware) games I have.
I don't know about you, but I don't know a single gamer that runs games with AA on, myself included. Almost always you can get a better effect just by cranking the resolution up a notch or two, and getter an equal frame rate.
As a semi serious gamer, I don't think I've ever even had AA on for more than a couple minutes.
Well the online docs seem to be written for someone with a programming background. If you have no idea how a if, for, while, switch, etc control structures work, you might have a hard time. I've learned php from the web docs, and a few random examples and now I'm a wiz. It also helps when programming php to know how the web works since writing a php program is nothing how you'd write a c program. Once you get in this mode of thinking it all becomes very easy.
I never, ever wanted anything more than the existing web docs, but I came from a solid c/c++ background, and I already had been using html for 3 years.
Maybe it would help if there was a web primer to bring people up to speed where the function listing help would be of more using and make much more sense.
Zend sells it's own accelerator, so it's in their intest NOT to include caching in php, or else zend's sales would drop.
The USPTO *really* needs to start actually *reading* the applications it approves.
:)
Either that or the USPTO needs to start approving everything under the sun, essentially making a patents worthless. (Which is my preference
I just preordered two dvds recently from amazon, and they actually shipped before the release date, with a big sticker on it saying "NOTE TO POSTMASTER, DO NOT DELIVER BEFORE NOVEMBER 14, 2002" or something to that extent. And guess what, I got both dvd on the day noted on the package.
Maybe they've fixed their preorder issues since your troubles. Personally I really don't care if I don't get my DVD the day of, I could get it a week later and not really care. I just used amazon because it's easy, and I don't have to make a 20 minute haul to Best Buy to stand in line.
I use a mirror hard drive to backup my data, which I do on a weekly basis. If either drive goes bad, then hopefully I'll know about it. If the data is more was important like as in your case, then I'd either make my backup machine either redundant raid, or have two seperate machines that do the backing up. The idea is that both dataset won't go bad at the same time. :) And since both are in kind of active use, I'll know when pretty soon one goes bad.
:) For my purposes, having both machines next to each other is pefectly acceptable risk, besides, it's MY data. If the room catches on fire, the data is toast, along with the rest of my belongings. If there's a huge electrical surge, I'm not sure what's gonna happen, both machines are plugged into a UPS. I'll just pray to God in this case.
I used to have all my data on a single unbackuped up 80 gig hd. A while back on slashdot there was an article on incremental backups via rsync. So I looked at it's feasiblity for a bit and I ended up buying two 120 gig hds, one drive resides in my linux workstation/server that I'm using now, it holds the live, in use copy of my data. And the other drive is in a dual boot xp/linux machine that sits right next to it. It's usually in xp when I want to play games, but once I week I fire the machine up to backup my data.
All in all I'm backing up around 90 gig to a 120 gig drive, plus I keep one previous copy of the data on the drive. I also use the same machine and hd to back up a server I have in maryland. I keep 3 incremental copies of this data since it's smaller. I'm counting on most of the files not to change, or else I wouldn't be able to store all of this on a single drive.
While you won't be able to back up 220 gigs of data with a single hard drive, you could easily have a mirror machine with software raid in linux that runs rsync on data.
You also wouldn't want to have the machine sittings right next to each other obviously.
Anyway, here's the scripts that I ended up using, I used scripts from the previously mentioned slashdot article as a guidline.
http://pimpbot.qooqle.com/gid/backup/
pimpbot.sh is the actual script that invokes rsync, then we have the exclude file, plus there's backup.sh which get executed nightly on the server that's being backuped up, it backups up the database, and other random files that's more machine specific.
Yeah, I went for the celeron because the p3's were easily twice as expensive or more at the time, and I was pretty sure that the celeron was going to be able to handle the job, which it did, and still does. :) I'd still make the same choice by going with a celeron and saving myself 90 bucks.
:)
Heck I just realized the slowest computer I still use is a p3-850, and that's a play server I have set up at the office in Maryland.
Interesting, I'm quite suprised the the fbdev driver is fast enough for MPlayer.
I just installed Debian on mine, just make sure you have XFree86 4.2 or newer (it's in sid and maybe sarge).